Re: [Duplicity-talk] sftp: "File size can't be validated..." warning

[Kenneth Loafman]

Hi Thomas,

I think you meant validate, not verify, above.

1) Let's remove the message, then,,

2) make an issue of the logic itself.

As to what the validation is trying to do could be done with an option to list with file sizes.  The proper way to do that, since list is a heavy time sync, is to do it in collections status which is always run at the end of the backup.

I don't mind rethinking anything, but let's do it on the issue tracker.

...Thanks,

...Ken

On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 8:23 PM Thomas Laubrock via Duplicity-talk <duplicity-talk@nongnu.org> wrote:

Hi all,

It is all about the verify function which is exactly doing that, it compares the file size.
I migrated it to another place but didn't add any kind of logic but the message that make aware of using a backend that is not allowing the comparison of file size.
This is what I try to point out here. The root problem is not the message, but the logic implemented.

Bye
  Thomas

On 30 March 2024 15:56:20 CET, "edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk" <duplicity-talk@nongnu.org> wrote:

On 30.03.2024 13:17, Thomas Laubrock via Duplicity-talk wrote:
Hi,

I agree, the message is less useful than I expected.
But it is only a symptom. I think the validation step which triggers this message is not the right way to do it. The put method of the backend should be implemented that it doesn't require this validation. Especially as this validation is optional.

and because it is optional, just an additional verification, it should not bother the average user. originally duplicity did not verify sizes afaik.

So my suggestion is not simply remove the message, but rethink what this validation is trying to archive.

sure, but for now i'd vote for stopping unsettling users without an actual need to do so ;)

suny regards ..ede
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